Making Questionnaire
In order to effectively collect participants’ activity feedback, I created a questionnaire to collect participants’ feelings. I will send this form to my guests on the third day, the seventh day, and the fourteenth day respectively, to collect their feedback on my Intervention in time.
Below is my questionnaire template.
Recent Feedback
Before the event started, I always worried that the 14-day cycle would be difficult for the guests to stick to. But so far, I have received photos from Zhang Hui and Charles for ten days.
Especially Charles, he is the only male in my event. He sends me photos every day and shares his feelings with me. Charles told me that as a male it is difficult to express that he is anxious about his appearance. He said that he rarely took selfies before because it was something girls would do. And he gradually observed himself under the lens since he needed to use my filter to take selfies every day. When I asked him whether the filter reduces his social appearance anxiety? He said YESSSS! Charles came to the United States since middle school, but with an oriental face, he couldn’t integrate well into the school environment. Charles told me that when he couldn’t deal with this feeling of isolation, he could only attribute the cause of these problems to his Eastern appearance. And the filter is like a mirror, allowing him to reflect himself. At the end of the chat, Charles told me during this process, he find that there is nothing wrong with his face. He realized that the anxiety about his own appearance is an escape behavior.
Guest Invitation
Last time I mentioned that I hope to invite some prestigious people to join my event to get more attention. Unfortunately, I didn’t get any response. I tried to contact some well-known magazine editors and Internet celebrity agents, but I didn’t get any reply. This reminds me that in my feedback from Unit 2, Richard told me that if in my opinion, social media has established a standard of beauty to promote people’s appearance anxiety, then there is a contradictory relationship between them. This may be the reason why my invitation did not get any response. But this made me realize that there is no space for people with social appearance anxiety to talk about their feelings. What’s more serious is that things that cause people to suffer from social appearance anxiety will not attract influential people to discuss it because there is a contradictory relationship between them. From most of the feedback I have received so far, the reason why these guests join my intervention is that they feel they can bravely talk about their appearance and anxiety during the event, which makes them feel relaxed.